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Designers Imagine a Makeover for Yahoo's Logo

Yahoo recently announced that it will introduce a new logo next month — after publishing 30-days of alternative designs that didn't quite make the cut — but some designers seem to think they can do a better job.

99designs, an online marketplace for crowdsourcing graphic designs, is running a contest to redesign Yahoo's logo. The contest runs through Wednesday and then, like Yahoo, 99designs will announce one winner — who will receive a prize of $500 — and 29 runners-up.

The design marketplace did something similar last year, launching a contest for users to offer suggestions for how to redesign the eBay logo.

Some of the designs in the current contest make minor tweaks to Yahoo's famous purple all-caps logo; many others take a more colorful approach, which would likely be disqualified outright by Yahoo, given that the company has already stated it will not ditch the purple or its iconic exclamation point.

Here are a few of the Yahoo logo designs from the more than 3,000 submissions so far:

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